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title: “Yes,” she answered, “but my thoughts dwelt constantly on Trusty Joh… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes,” she answered, “but my thoughts dwelt constantly on Trusty John, and of what he has suffered for us.” Who acts: Queen, thoughts, king, my. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 114

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“Yes,” she answered, “but my thoughts dwelt constantly on Trusty John, and of what he has suffered for us.”

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**Who acts:** Queen, thoughts, king, my · **What happens:** answer, dwell, suffer, think · **To what, where:** Trusty John · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, thoughts, king, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:41:114
# text = “Yes,” she answered, “but my thoughts dwelt constantly on Trusty John, and of what he has suffered for us.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	parataxis	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dwell** *in a quote* | past | my thoughts |  |  | Trusty John |  | constantly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on john=Location |
| 3 | **suffer** *in a quote* | present · perfect | king |  |  |  |  | for us | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **think** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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